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    <h2 id="you-need-a-line-feed-or-semicolon-before-the-do">You need a line
feed or semicolon before the <code>do</code>.</h2>
<h3 id="problematic-code">Problematic code:</h3>
<div class="sourceCode" id="cb1"><pre class="sourceCode sh"><code class="sourceCode bash"><span id="cb1-1"><a href="SC1063.html#cb1-1" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="cf">for</span> file <span class="kw">in</span> <span class="pp">*</span> do</span>
<span id="cb1-2"><a href="SC1063.html#cb1-2" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a>  <span class="bu">echo</span> <span class="st">&quot;</span><span class="va">$file</span><span class="st">&quot;</span></span>
<span id="cb1-3"><a href="SC1063.html#cb1-3" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="cf">done</span></span></code></pre></div>
<h3 id="correct-code">Correct code:</h3>
<div class="sourceCode" id="cb2"><pre class="sourceCode sh"><code class="sourceCode bash"><span id="cb2-1"><a href="SC1063.html#cb2-1" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="cf">for</span> file <span class="kw">in</span> <span class="pp">*</span><span class="kw">;</span> <span class="cf">do</span></span>
<span id="cb2-2"><a href="SC1063.html#cb2-2" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a>  <span class="bu">echo</span> <span class="st">&quot;</span><span class="va">$file</span><span class="st">&quot;</span></span>
<span id="cb2-3"><a href="SC1063.html#cb2-3" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="cf">done</span></span>
<span id="cb2-4"><a href="SC1063.html#cb2-4" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a></span>
<span id="cb2-5"><a href="SC1063.html#cb2-5" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="co"># or </span></span>
<span id="cb2-6"><a href="SC1063.html#cb2-6" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a></span>
<span id="cb2-7"><a href="SC1063.html#cb2-7" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="cf">for</span> file <span class="kw">in</span> <span class="pp">*</span></span>
<span id="cb2-8"><a href="SC1063.html#cb2-8" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="cf">do</span></span>
<span id="cb2-9"><a href="SC1063.html#cb2-9" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a>  <span class="bu">echo</span> <span class="st">&quot;</span><span class="va">$file</span><span class="st">&quot;</span></span>
<span id="cb2-10"><a href="SC1063.html#cb2-10" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="cf">done</span></span></code></pre></div>
<h3 id="rationale">Rationale:</h3>
<p>ShellCheck found a <code>do</code> on the same line as a loop, but
<code>do</code> only starts a loop block at the start of a
line/statement. Make the <code>do</code> the start of a new
line/statement by inserting a linefeed or semicolon in front of it.</p>
<h3 id="exceptions">Exceptions:</h3>
<p>If you wanted to treat <code>do</code> as a literal string, you can
quote it to make this clear to ShellCheck and humans:</p>
<pre><code>for f in &quot;for&quot; &quot;do&quot; &quot;done&quot;
do
  echo &quot;Shell keywords include: $f&quot;
done</code></pre>
<h3 id="related-resources">Related resources:</h3>
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<li>Help by adding links to BashFAQ, StackOverflow, man pages, POSIX,
etc!</li>
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